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Washington: US officials announced on Friday that a search is currently underway in rural Alaska for a plane carrying 10 individuals, including the pilot, which failed to arrive in Nome as scheduled, according to local media reports.
The Bering Air Caravan flight, traveling from Unalakleet to Nome, was reported overdue to the Alaska State Troopers at 4 PM local time, as stated by the Alaska Department of Public Safety, as cited by NBC News. The Coast Guard has been alerted, and an active ground search is being conducted, according to a statement from the Nome Volunteer Fire Department on social media.
The official Coast Guard account on X for the Alaska maritime area reported that the plane was 12 miles offshore when its position was lost during its journey from Unalakleet to Nome. “The US Coast Guard District 17 responded to an aircraft emergency notification from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at 4:30 PM today for a Cessna Caravan that was reported to have 10 people on board,” the USCG Alaska stated.
In a separate incident, CNN reported that a US-contracted surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday morning, resulting in the deaths of all four personnel on board, including one US military service member, according to US Indo-Pacific Command. Additionally, on January 29, an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, leading to the tragic deaths of 64 individuals, including four crew members aboard the commercial airliner.
